You’re Killin’ It: Drake

Yo YKM has a twin! Like most twins, one is good while the other is a bit more mischievous. I’m sure you know which one YKM is, and I’m sure you can guess what’s coming. You’re Killin’ It, You’re Killin’ Me’s good twin. YKI is here to save the world and point out the positive aspects of hip-hop, because believe it or not, there are a lot. Most of the time good deeds go unnoticed because they lack excitement. Nobody goes ham over another rapper donating $100,000 to charity or building a skate park for troubled youth. Nevertheless, positivity needs more shine. During the opening installment of You’re Killin’ It, we have Drake graduating high school. It might not mean much to some of us personally, but it sends a positive message to those who look up to him. We can’t hate on that. Mr. Drake, you’re killin’ it.

School is cool and everything but Drake didn’t really need his high school diploma. He’s 25 sittin’ on 25 mill’! A high school diploma doesn’t really better Drake’s chances in the world of employment. The music industry is very time consuming as it is, so adding another to-do to an already packed agenda can cause problems. And you know what they say, time is money. Most rappers in his situation would’ve just gave high school the middle finger.

97% on my final exam. 88% in the course. One of the greatest feelings in my entire life. As of tonight I have graduated high school!

Fortunately, Drake values education. I don’t think his high school diploma means that he’s going to bring out his Immortal Technique, or that he’s going to quit rap and pursue a study in philosophy where he will try to answer if we in fact only live once. It also doesn’t mean that he’s going to make more money because of it. Like I said, Drake doesn’t need a diploma. He did it for himself, to finish something that he started back in Canada. But most importantly, it sends a positive message to his young audience. School is important, graduate. The message can’t be any clearer in this muddy hip-hop world.

A lot of rappers make it seem like all that matters in this world is money. It’s obvious, you get money you’re successful. Nobody cares about a rapper’s transcripts. Nobody ever looks at J. Cole’s or 2 Chainz’ college transcripts. Instead we look up Gunplay’s or Gucci Mane’s arrest record. Usually, the longer the record the better. People do this because it’s not cool to be smart and that’s more of a cultural problem than a hip-hop problem. But that doesn’t mean that hip-hop should follow in line because this genre never has. Drake just took a step towards making smart cool. You can’t hate on that even if you hate the guy’s music. He isn’t the first rapper to graduate high school or the first to deliver a positive message, but he is one of the biggest to recently do so. Drake, you’re killin it.

I do think its good he went out of his way to graduate n respect it, but seriously an article on it??haha I’m with immortal should have done k dot on how he killed his debut n still found a way to have concept. I havnt heard a good mainstream debut in a long time. That’s killing it.

@Luminous Story, I’m with you brotha. Dudes throw out the word hate for the fuck of it lol can’t remember the last mainstream album that had good subject matter a story behind it n jus a well put together album. Those are just facts not hate

I like K dot and his album is good,yes,but then the way some niggaz go on about kendrick is fucken ridiculous. Not so long ago dudes were riding J.cole’s dick saying”he’s the hip hop savior”and”oh he’s the new pac,he gives rap life”now its Kendrick,its only a matter of time before y’all start saying he’s over-rated and all that bullshit forgetting that people do change and Kendrick will change and its only a few people that will still bump his shit,the rest will be wheling out”this dude is over-rated” YKM gents relax

@Youngin, I would agree with you but IMO j Cole debut compared to k dots is not even comparable almost laughable. I usually only buy albums unless I feel they’re worth buying. Being a big fan of j Coles Friday night lights I thought his debut was below average. Slaughtergouse debut? Below average IMO as well. These are artist I like too. Everyone has there own opinion..if you feel k dot album is not worth the recognition then its cool brotha I can respect that

@Youngin, I dunno abou Kendricks otha fans. . . But I will never say that about K.dot!!! Lol. This guy is just to skilled to be just anotha rapper of the moment type thing! Take nothing away from J.Cole. . But thats just a fact. U know Kendrick is those artists u know wont lose it cause they actually love music. Dont get me wrong, J.Cole is great and certainly will have a prosperous career. . But 4 ME. . Theres rarely a hip hop artist who drops his debut and theres universal acclaim like this. Its rare dude and feats like this have been accomplished by Kanye, Jay, Nas, 50Cent had Maaadddd hype with his debut jus to name a few. So please just allow us to enjoy this shot in history!!! Lol.

@AfricaRising, lol yo that’s true my dawg,Kendrick is still in those humble stages hey I like that and I hope it doesn’t change because once these dude let the money take over they start rapping about shit we can’t related to cause our asses are broke and shit haha

@Youngin, Hahahahahahaha!!! True. We could all relate to College Dropout & Reasonable Doubt (well in a way), but when it got to WTT, we’re like wait Hov what do ya mean you’re plankin on a million?? Hahahahahahahaha!! I see your concern!

Youngin
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October 22nd, 2012 4:20 pm

@MosDef, Don’t get me wrong bud I like GKMC I’ve been bumping to it ever since it leaked and in my opinion its better than Take care,thank me later and Cole world possibly combined but the shit I don’t like is the fact that niggaz go on like Kendrick has been killing this shit for decades really they should just give him some time to let him be,I don’t know if I should say,comfortable. Example J.cole put out friday night lights and people went crazy,I did too,because of the content on that mixtape and when his album dropped the lyricism and content weren’t as good as friday night lights and dare I say he might never put out a project like FNL so what I would like is for us to just wait for that step from Kendrick then we can say”ok this is the best Kendrick can do now”not that people label him as the new pac yet,its too early

@Youngin, ya I get what u saying brotha. Just so u know I’ve never thought any one those were the next saviors. Hip hop is good if u look for it but as far as mainstream Cole n k dot are the face. I agree fnl is probably that last good body of work he’ll do. All I’m saying is I can’t remember the last mainstream debut being as good as this project. It does need time to kick in I feel u, but I’m pretty sure its going to stay on deck for me a year or two from now. I’m tuff on rating shit…even if I like the artist ill say if it sucks or not lol if k dot would have just thrown a bunch of songs together for the fuck of it we’d be talking a whole different story..lol

@Youngin,
true, but as of right now Kendrick is the best rapper of his generation, & this album proves it.
& yeah whenever someone compares an artist to Tupac or Biggie they usually don’t know what they’re talking bout…
if he succeeds to make his next album at least as good as this 1, then maybe we can start putting him between the legends

I agree calling Kendrick the best Rapper is too much
He has just dropped one album
No doubt it is Dope
But a classic ? No,it still has some loop holes

no Reply:October 22nd, 2012 at 5:49 pm

@drizz,
I mean in time fool, not right now
he prove he has the potential of a legend, so if he keeps coming with classics & he stays true to the music then YES

lol drake always has something to talk about because he always talks about the same…. good for him that he has a lovelife but I don’t bother to listen to his escapades song after song….

90percent of his fanbase are lil’ girls lol not that he’s not talented but I don’t consider him a legend cuz he brought nothing new to the industry, he just capatalizes of dumb people who don’t like substance or listening to lyrics….
proof? poetic justice is about girls cuz that’s ALL he talks about

drizz
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October 22nd, 2012 4:38 pm

@MosDef, yes yhur HATING on success.. What u crave for… Take Care was “story-telling”… Drake always has sumtin 2 rap bout.. If yhu hurt 2much go get a site of your own…

The point of the article was to send out a message that education is important! Idk how y’all went on to talking about kendrick? Yeah his album is far better then anything out there right now (mainstream wise) but that’s not even the point! Give the man credit for actually taking time to get his hs diploma when he clearly doesn’t need it, it’s just saying that education is important!!!

@Jonathan, People are just pointing our why K.Dot’s album should have been up before this. It’s just I want to talk to some people about the work lol. It’s just amazing.
I feel you, education is very important. I hope it’ll help other kids but I don’t know, kids all have different reasons to drop out. Drake’s reason is completely different.. He had to drop out to become famous. Lets see him be like Emma Watson and let him go for some kind of degree.

@no, Yeah but Kendrick is 25 or 26 years old hey I would love to see him withstand the test of time because we’ve seen how strong 50 cent came in the game,we saw lil wayne dominating at some point and look at snoop dogg that was with pac and them when I look at him I don’t really see a rap legend,some people will say I’m crazy for that and like I said about kendrick the test of time is upon him,I’d like him to reach that jayZ status and the same goes for wale because I think that dude is fire,people just don’t see that

@Youngin,
off course I’m just saying he has the potential, cuz you gotta admit this album is far better than what his ‘hiphopcolleagues’ have put out this year & actually in a while (my opinion off course)

@drizz,
you’re right congrats to Drake, it values education
ps you’re right again gkmc is not about KDot’s life, he totally made it up…

no Reply:October 22nd, 2012 at 5:58 pm

@Youngin,
Wale is very talented, but if he wants to become a big name in hiphop he should leave MMG, they gave him more popularity but his music is starting to fall of, they don’t have a good influence on his poetry in my opinion

@no, Totally bro and there’s quite a lot of people that feel like Kendrick can be something big in the game and he just showed signs by dropping this killer album and as for wale bro,that’s a beast and people are sleeping on him

if you look below this article you will see a post on k dot and guess what?no comment but bam!on drakes shit you see @mosdef, @youngin giving props to k dots album..dont get me wrong k dots went ham on GKMC but come on guys drake did something great here.u criticise drake for always talking about pussy but now he does something positive..all i hear is k dot

its funny how everyone talking about j.cole and kendrick first fucking album as if ,its all that but ist not! on a drake review. but drake it pretty much better by the look of it kendrick and cole doesnt get so much comments when there shits on this site, yall fuckers dislike shit so much that yall blind to see greatness, but its all good the truth will prevails its self over time. and oh yeah dont forget about meek mill i guarantee his shit is better than kendrick and will sell more than his and you fucking sell outs.

I remember back when this website posted lyrics with the quickness had the newest song immediately. I don’t know I’ve been coming to KHH for a while now miss those days like the site missing ALL of Kendrick’s album.